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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Secretary of State (Berle)
The Brazilian Ambassador99 came in to see me at his request. He wished to inquire what he could be told about the air conversations held in London.
I told him I was glad that I could be quite frank about them. We had an understanding with the British that we might inform the representatives of other countries with whom we might wish to have air conversations, the results of the conferences. We hoped to have conversations in the not-distant future with Brazil on this subject.
I then reviewed orally the general outlines of the discussions we had had. These are embodied in a memorandum, a copy of which is attached.1 I told the Ambassador that I would give him such a memorandum on a wholly personal and entirely non-committal basis merely to serve as foundation for the telegraphic report he wished to make to his Government.
I further said to him that we would be glad to enter into conversations with representatives of Brazil when they were ready, but that we expected first to talk to the Chinese Government and to the Soviet Government when their representatives arrived.